APCO/NENA General Meeting

March 16, 2007

Marana AZ

 

Meeting called to order 10:10

 

Introductions

 

Approval of last meeting minutes: Mark Schroeder motion 2nd Pat Joy

 

Treasurer Report as sent by Dan McNemee

Report attached. The Board is working to set a budget and audit. 

 

NENA Treasurer report given by Barbara Jaeger.  Report is attached.

 

Pat Joy gave Executive Council Report.  Report is attached.

  • Committee sign up is April 1st.

  • April 1st is deadline for Telecommunicator award nominations.

  • Nominations for Life and Senior Members due by April 1st.

  • National APCO Marketing department has a new Leader,  they have determined to monitor all of the “free” advertising APCO receives.  In February the added value was $22,000 dollars.

  • National APCO is looking for feedback on the updated magazine.

  • The next generation of project RETAINS kicked off. 

  • APCO is looking to get involved at the national level of NIMS.

  • Midyear Meeting: Approved budget for 2007-2008, put forth a budget that is not balanced.  Adjustments will be made throughout the year.

  • EMAIL blasts to Council members proposal installs a 48 hour moratorium on voting action to allow for member discussion.

  • 2014 National Convention is in New Orleans

  • Dues will increase $2 effective January 1st.

  • February 27th received an email stating CFO Tim Ryan resigned.

  • The organization is in the final stages of selecting an Executive Director.

 

Technical Operations Mark Schroeder

Since our last meeting we have coordinated about a dozen applications.  The number of applications has decreased.  There have been about 10 applications through the Interco-ordination actions. 

National Office picked up the travel expenses for our two AFC Advisors Mark Schroeder and Scott Tillman to attend training.

Our Bylaws committee will hopefully begin work on our Arizona Chapter by-laws.

 

Scott Tillman Interagency

Frequency coordination training this year was unique that all four Frequency co-ordination players were present.  Some agreements were made on principles of the processes used for harmonious grouping by the co-coordinators.

Interoperability.  Currently AIRS has 26 suites up and running.  Most are the full tri-band systems.  Basically all are cross banded at the site.  By May every suite will be migrated to full repeated format structure around the State.  Homeland Security has run out of funding to do additional deployments.  There are another 15 sites we can deploy radios at once funding is in hand.  The PSCC is working do a pilot or demo project to support the Super Bowl to provide wide-area coverage.  Several years ago Topaz, the Feds had some frequencies they were plugging in with. Hopefully they will work with us to do it again for the Super Bowl.

The DPS is continuing to roll out its MDC system.  There are 8 sites operational at this time.  DPS will be adding 7 or 8 sites in Yavapai County.  24 sites State Wide is the goal.  The central corridor is covered.  We are basically providing some mobile data services along the southern border.  Pinal County is the only county currently involved with system testing to utilize the MDC system.  3 Counties in the north as well as the Cottonwood area are in discussion.  The is not a DPS only system.  All ACJIS certified agencies could utilize that system. 

 

Emergency Medical Services: No Report

 

Professional Development: No Report

 

Commercial Updates: No Report

 

New Business: Sheila Blevins and Brian Tobin are looking at putting AZ APCO in for the Western Regional Conference in 2012.  Part of the planning is to include a letter of intent. Proposed dates, Conference Chairs will be selected.  There will be some planning and travel involved to attend the Western Regional in New Mexico to attend to the consortium meeting.

 

Andy Lacy gave a short overview of the Western Regional in March in Long Beach.

 

The Website: Brian Tobin

We are looking at re-vamping our website to include some e-commerce.  We are looking at getting estimates from companies for upgrading our website and include payment for conferences and products.  We could do online membership updates, classes.  We are looking at the possibility of vendors sponsoring part of the website.

We are looking at setting up a regional training program.  We are hoping to get trainers from other agencies to help reduce the cost of training made available to our members. 

Discussion on the website to include APCO/NENA information and the costs would be shared appropriately. 

Motion: Pat Joy made a motion to spend up to $3,000 to develop the new website and the costs will be split evenly by the APCO and NENA Chapters.  Ellen Anderson seconded.

Vote by the Chapters of APCO and NENA carried unanimously.

 

Training:  Phoenix is looking at teaming with Lake Havasu for CTO training.  The County Insurance Pool does training as well.  Barbara Jaeger can be contacted for additional information.  This program is in development.

 

Life Membership: Motion made by Mark Schroeder to nominate Pat Joy for Life Member. Barbara Jaeger  2nd.  Vote carried.

 

Nominations for Board Members:  June meeting will be moved to July 20 at 10 am in Payson.  Information will be on the website. 

Tami deRuiter will take nominations.  Vice President, Treasurer and Member at Large.  For APCO.  Ellen Anderson Member at Large, Karen Allen Vice President, Patty Spencer Treasurer.

NENA has 2nd Vice President position open.  Trudy Cory will receive nominations for NENA.  Liz Graber was nominated for 2nd VP.

Barbara made motion for NENA and Mary 2nd it.

Nominations are open until June 15th.  Ballots will be sent out as well as counted at the July meeting.

 

Barbara Jaeger gave an update on NENA activities. 

NENA and APCO are working closely to present one voice on NG911 and TERT.

The NENA Annual conference is in Charlotte.  2008 in Tampa and 2009 in Dallas.

NENA had a large increase in dues this year.  There will not be an increase in the coming year.  Vouchers were issued to members who renewed this year.  The Board met with the FCC, Dana Schaeffer and Dana Cohen to discuss the FCC revisiting the MLTS.  Trac Phone is trying to opt out of truly enhanced 9-1-1.  These are the prepaid wireless telephones.  There is a public safety meeting on NG911 and looking for logical expansion. 

SB1265 is struggling.  The new legislation is very explicit and talks about VoIP.  We got through SB1265 the Senate and in the House it has been held due to leadership issues.  Barbara asked NENA to review our existing legislation and comment. That is being forwarded to the Department of Revenue.  NASNA and the State of Tennessee is also reviewing the SB wording.  This has been a very long and hard Legislative session.  45.5 million grant funds available for NG911 on the National level. 

 

Motion by Barbara Jaeger to adjourn the meeting.  Patty Spencer 2nd meeting adjourned.

 

Lunch followed the meeting as well as training on Operation Lifesaver presented by Diane VanHorn of Marana Police Department.